Kill Clutter from too Many Windows with WinRoll

WinRoll allows you to double-click any window title bar to roll it up so the only part of the window that's visible is the title bar.

Back before taskbars and docks and other utilities that show running applications across the bottom of your screen, you were able to double-click on a window's title bar to roll it up like a window shade. Over time the feature was dropped from almost every OS that supported it, but if you find yourself wishing you could move a window out of the way without minimizing it, give WinRoll a try.

WinRoll allows you to double-click any window title bar to roll it up so the only part of the window that's visible is the title bar. This way you can move windows out of the way without minimizing them to the taskbar, or allow a running app to stay in front of other windows without letting it take up the whole screen.

WinRoll was written in assembly, so it's incredibly small and runs in just about every version of Windows. The app is completely free and open-source, so other developers can download the source code and make their own modifications and improvements.

WinRoll also includes a few other useful features, like the ability to instantly send a window to the back of all open windows, or to send a single window to the tray without minimizing the entire application. If you're using Windows 2000 or newer, WinRoll allows you to make the window translucent, so you can focus on other open windows while leaving the title bar up on the screen.

The app is incredibly simple and is a tiny download. (less than 1MB) Once it's downloaded and installed, it runs quietly in the background waiting for you to double-click on a window's title bar. Since it's written in assembly, it uses less memory than many standard Windows services while running. If you find yourself missing window shade-like functionality from older versions of Windows (or even old Mac OS 9 users), WinRoll does a great job at bringing it back. Back to top